A blog about Blogshops

I am putting this post from a blog called Wedoryn365 here becuz it has some interesting notes about blogshops:

1. It defines blogshops in terms of their free hosting.

2. It makes an observation that the earlier blogshops sold stuff that were bought and resold, while more recent blogshops are making forays into selling things that are self-made.  This needs further investigation, to see if there is a trend toward blogshop owners becoming designers.  Implications for typologies.

From Wedoryn365 blog: http://wedoryn365.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/day-255/

Day 255

By: wedoryn

Aug 21 2010

Girl standing on a plastic chair? There’s good reason for it, I assure you.

That’s Agnes, one half of one of our local blogshops here called Agneselle (that’s a link, click it). What’s a blogshop, you might ask? Well you’re either a very misinformed local (swakoo), or you live in a place where blogshops don’t exist much.

A blogshop is basically a shop, that’s running online, via the free hosting services that are blogs. Orders are made via comments on relevant blog entries and payments are made via bank transfers of sorts and items are delivered via mail.

Why’s it such a hit? Probably the convenience, the price, and not-so-recently, ‘cuz of the design. In the ancient days, when the more established shops were still new, the clothes sold were mainly bought-and-resold, they weren’t self-designed and self-manufactured much. The bigger and main-er shops like Agneselle now sell their own stuff.

Sounds like a novel idea, doesn’t it? ‘Tis tough to jump on the band wagon now though. Competition among the noobs are hard and making it past the established ones is tough. You really have to hand it to the ladies who run these things.

So, what’s she doing outside, on a chair? Today they had two small.. well it was supposed to be small.. stalls at an organized flea market. The number of customers overflowed much so that selling for some parts of time had to be done on chairs and that immediate neighbouring stalls couldn’t even set up ‘cuz people were blocking their space.

Yes, sometimes blogshops enter the real physical world. It’s a good change or some fun lah – variety of sorts.

So, foreign people, do you have blogshops where you come from? I don’t mean online shopping via things like topshop.com or forever21.com where you can buy stuff via credit cards, I really mean Blog-Shops. I’m wondering if it’s such a local (Malaysia is included) phenomenon as our local press have made it out to be.